Lot 305, third day, Saturday, May 25th, 1805. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: _20_ _London. Published as the Act directs, by E. Donovan, & Mess.^{rs} Simpkin & Marshall, Oct.^r 1, 1822._ ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORNITHOLOGY. PLATE XX. PIPRA PUNCTATA DOTTED OR SPECKLED MANAKIN. PASSERES. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill shorter than the head, strong, hard, nearly triangular at the base and slightly incurvate at the tip: nostrils naked. Feet gressorial: tail short. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Cinereous brown, beneath yellow: head, wings, and tail black with white dots: tail coverts red. PIPRA PUNCTATA: griseo fusca, subtus flava, capite alis caudaque nigris albo punctatis, tectricibus caudæ rubris. PIPRA PUNCTATA. Greyish brown, waved with dusky: top of the head and wings black speckled with white; tail coverts red. SPECKLED MANAKIN, _Nat. Miscell. 111._ PARDALOTUS (punctatus) _Vieillot. Ornith. Elem. p. 31._ * * * * * This pretty little species of Manakin is one among the number of those numerous acquisitions in the science of Natural History, for which the Naturalist is indebted to the prolific regions of Australasia. The very close affinity which it bears to the Gmelinian Pipra Nævia, a species described originally by Buffon under the title of _Fourmilier tacheté de Cayenne_, may possibly have occasioned some confusion among authors respecting this individual species, but there are still, if we mistake not, sufficient indications of the two birds being specifically distinct. This was the opinion of the late Dr. Shaw: he constituted a new species of the bird before us under the name of PIPRA PUNCTATA, and the english trivial of SPECKLED MANAKIN, and we are induced to follow that example from a persuasion that his conclusion was correct. Pipra Nævia, to which it is so nearly allied, has the throat and chin black, and the breast spotted with black: Pipra Punctata, on the contrary, has the throat and breast yellow, without any black spots. These differences afford a conspicuous distinction of the two birds, besides which, there are some others of less consideration that will appear upon an attentive comparison.